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Addressee: Indigenous peoples, Member states
Paragraph Number: 51
Session: 20 (2021)
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It is important to recognize that indigenous peoples themselves must claim ownership of their languages and direct the revitalization efforts of the languages, while States should support these efforts and facilitate the transmission of the languages by parents and grandparents to the younger generations.
Area of Work: International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032)
Addressee: Member States, UN system
Paragraph Number: 102
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that Member States, the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations system ensure that the processes relating to the definition of the development agenda beyond 2015 are formulated in accordance with the objectives of sustainable development, as defined in the Indigenous Peoples’ International Declaration on Sustainable Development and Self-Determination, adopted by the Indigenous Peoples’ International Conference on Sustainable Development and Self-Determination, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2012, and also recommends that culture be affirmed as the fourth pillar of sustainable development.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, MDGs
